Hoinkes Peak

Hoinkes Peak
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height	1840 m
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Enterprise Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 82 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 79 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 82 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W

Hoinkes Peak is a pointed rocky peak of the Enterprise Hills in the Heritage Range in West Antarctica . The 1840 m high mountain is located in the west of the mountain range, at the head of the Henderson Glacier .

The mountain was mapped by the United States Geological Survey as part of the Enterprise Hills survey in 1961-66 through field surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy . It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Herfried C. Hoinkes , who worked as a meteorologist on the American Antarctic station Little America V in 1957 .

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